Aloha, and welcome to HRD!

Thank you for visiting our site.  Our agency has been rooted in Hawaii’s quest for fair and efficient public service since our founding in 1939. 

Our goal is to provide the BEST possible human resources to the State. While achieving this goal may seem simple, we have many different customers including state agency managers throughout a fast-paced Hawaii, and each of you – valued members of our public citizenry. 

We are advancing our goal through hard work, staff development, and the use of new technologies.  I also want to highlight that we are using the good, old-fashioned method of reaching out to our customers to keep improving our customer services.  The vision I have laid out for the Department, is to continue to provide the best HR support possible to the maximum benefit of the State.

As we focus on maximizing our valued human resources, our ultimate focus is in providing Hawaii’s citizens with a qualified, motivated and capable work force in the true spirit of merit principles. 

We work to ensure that civil service positions statewide are properly classified and fairly compensated.  We recruit for job openings on merit and utilize appropriate testing or screening criteria.  We design or provide state employees and managers a rich complement of training and development courses to serve you better.  To retain a high level of public confidence, employees must successfully pass annual evaluations.  Annually we honor the state’s many outstanding employees, managers and teams for exemplary service.  We ensure that State workplaces and employees are safe.  In essence we value the human spirit and knowledge, which we then place into maximum action for Hawaii.

In the exciting months ahead we will be adding more information to this site, such as new HR developments, information, and timely information about careers in demand.  So here’s an invitation to come visit frequently.

 
Aloha,

Marie C. Laderta
Director, Department of Human Resources Development